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Let the Metadata Wars Begin

Two giants in the library technology market move the battle over who controls library catalog records to court.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 22, 2022
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“Recenter Library Systems on the User”: An Interview with OhioLINK’s Gwen Evans

The major US library consortium OhioLINK has created a vision for the systems that libraries use for acquiring content from publishers, managing collections, and enabling discovery. An interview about this vision with executive director Gwen Evans,

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Feb 24, 2020
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Who Has All the Content?

Several services attempt to gather up “all” of the content across publishers. This post provides an overview and taxonomy.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Feb 23, 2017
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Monograph Output of American University Presses, 2009-2013

This is a report on the monograph output of American university presses. The report had the cooperation of 65 presses, which contributed their historical data to the project. The report shows the output of the presses and provides a more granular analysis by subject area and press size.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Feb 14, 2017
  • 7 Comments

Smarter Metadata — Aiding Discovery in Next Generation E-book and E-journal Gateways

For scholars to excel in the information age, technology needs to learn to learn. Perhaps highly specialized humans can help.

  • By Alix Vance
  • Feb 17, 2011
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OCLC: Indispensable Database Collaborative or Social Media Prelude?

Despite OCLC’s legal woes, and no matter how the court of law decides, the court of user opinion may be the determining factor in OCLC’s future.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Aug 3, 2010
  • 18 Comments

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